The Assumption of Moses 2

1. . . they shall go by thee into the land, which He decreed and promised to give to their fathers,

2In which thou shalt bless them, and shalt give and establish to each one his portion in me, and shalt establish for them a kingdom, and shalt set lawgivers over their districts, according to that which shall please the Lord in righteousness and judgement.

3. . . And, when they shall have entered into the land [five] years, afterwards chiefs and kings shall have the dominion for eighteen years, and for nineteen years the ten tribes shall break off from them,

4For the two tribes shall depart, and transfer the tabernacle of the testimony. Then the God of heaven shall build the wall of His tabernacle, and the tower of His sanctuary, and the two tribes of His holiness shall be placed there;

5For the ten tribes shall establish their kingdom according to their devices;

6And they shall bring their victims to the altar for twenty years;

7And seven shall entrench the walls, and I will protect nine, and four shall transgress the covenant of the Lord, and profane the oath, which the Lord made with them.

8And they shall sacrifice their children to strange gods, and shall set up idols in the tabernacle to serve them.

9And they shall work abomination in the house of the Lord, and grave every kind of beast even many idols.